A Statement signed by people from many walks of life, including major luminaries, artists, public figures, and religious leaders, which recasts the moral and political terms and the thinking of millions.

Nationally Web-Cast "People's Hearings" - public speak outs in Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and the Rio Grande Valley which drew out the true dimensions of the emergency. People did not know of clinic closures, scope, or stakes. These speak out combined mass testimony from before Roe and from today, the breadth of a wide-range of community leaders and health care providers, and the prominence of well-known individuals.

Confrontational, dramatic, non-violent political protest that delivered "the verdict" of these hearings to appropriate individuals and institutions. Protesters brandished bloody coat-hangers, images of women who died from illegal abortions, and shackles representing female enslavement.

On the ground day to day the Freedom Riders did mass outreach with tens of thousands of stickers, palm cards, coat hangers, collected stories, staged flash protests, conducted media work, blogged, released videos and involved growing numbers of people on the ground and throughout the country in waging this fight in ways big and small. All this culminated in a...

Who is stop patriarchy?

Stop Patriarchy is a group for everyone who wants to FIGHT to STOP the enslavement of women. Not politely lobby against it. Not grumble at the TV. Not simply post things on Twitter. And definitely not sit around waiting for those in power to “come to their senses.” It is also a movement for everyone who can be won to see the need for this – we are fighting aggressively to change minds and to grow and deepen and escalate until we succeed in changing everything. JOIN US!